Because Penguins Eat Fish And All Barbs
Are Wired #GothamFinale #Gotham
Whoa! I just finished watching the
season finale of #Gotham and... Whoa! I know, I'm very behind on my DVRing but it has been a busy week. There were people dying, people
flying (to their doom), to people retiring and people discovering
secrets. There was so much stuff packed into this one episode that it
felt almost like more of a summation of the season, rather than an
end to it. Where do I begin.
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| CatFish How cute! |
First up to crumble: Falcone. He might
have crumbled had his would-be assassins not aimed their rocket
launcher at his car instead of at him as he held a chicken. Suffering
a little residual pain and anguish from the attack, he winds up in
some rather dingy looking hospital somewhere in the city with
Maroni’s goons slowly making their way toward him. Penguin stopped
by to gloat as he is wanton to do, and proved that he still had a lot
to learn if he was going to truly be the crime boss of the city (I
suppose now we know why every villain ever has always saw the need to
profess their plan before it’s completed—it’s arousing). Of
course, their encounter where Penguin confesses that it was he who
tangentially started the war, he then proceeded to take out a scalpel
and try killing his old boss. In hindsight, I think that defeated the
purpose in starting the war in the first place. If you always planned
on doing the killing yourself, why not just do it to both bosses and
claim your throne?
Unfortunately like nearly all good
plans Cobblepot had this season, it went awry as Gordon came in and
white knighted the entire situation. Gordon only saved Falcone out of
a belief that the old man could stop the anarchy in the city. He’d
have to shoot his way out of the hospital as it had been abandoned
due to a notice about the hit on Falcone put out by his squad.
Bullock to the rescue to come and shoot the last guy before his
partner got killed.
With Cobblepot, Falcone and Penguin’s
right hand guy (formerly Mooney’s right hand man) all in custody,
the two cops took the men to what Falcone thought would be a safe
house. Surprise! Surprise (Gomer Pyle voice)! Lo and behold, Fish
Mooney was already there with Selina Kyle in-tow with her other new
cobbled together group of goons. She was happy to not only tie the
five men up, but turn them over to Maroni in favor of respect and her
own piece of the kingdom. Why the hell did she think she would get
either of those things? Especially from Maroni? Forget the fact that
he still saw her as nothing more than a minion, a bossable peon to
give directions (yes, I said bossable. It’s a word... maybe), he
didn’t even respect her as a woman. She wasn’t really even a
woman scorned, just really pissed off. She shot him in his head and
started a shootout with his guys. 
Somehow, during this shootout, the five
guys all got loose from their shackles and either ran away or gladly
participated. Penguin being a member of the latter stayed and killed
as many people as he could, clawing and shooting and beaking his way
to the top in hopes of taking the crown of the city. He managed to
get into one last fight with Fish on the rooftop of the harbor side
of the warehouse. After a brief Sophie’s choice interlude with his
new second hand (remember, Fish’s old right hand guy), they managed
to fight through the bullet wounds left in both of them and scrap it
out to the death. Penguin finally succeeded by tossing Fish over the
roof into the icy waters below. In an unexpected move, he climbed
atop the ledge of the roof and went complete DiCaprio Titanic,
proclaiming how he was the King of the world Gotham.
At that point, I completely expected for the right hand man to
whisper, “I’ll never let go, Fish. I’ll never let go!” But he
didn’t. Disappointing.
To round things out, E. Nygma went
crazy or crazier than what he already was when that girl he had a
crush on all season discovered his clue in the letter he forged for
the cop he killed. Falcone escaped the bloodshed with Gordon and gave
him a knife, the same one that Gordon’s father gifted to Falcone
years ago. Like all good gangsters, he graciously retired, leaving
the city for warmer pastures. Barbara also went crazy, confessing
that it was she who killed her parents, not the Ogre, and that they
were soulmates of some kind. She and Gordon’s current girlfriend
got into a heck of a fight where Dr. Thompkins bashed her head on the
hard floor. Gordon walked in and immediately believed that his ex was
crazy, because who’s ex isn’t?
But the most intriguing
cliffhanger/question came during the last few minutes when Bruce
showed off his genius and figured out what Lucius meant went he said
Thomas Wayne was a Stoic. He discovered a small remote that turned on
music an revealed a secret passage behind a fireplace that led down
some stairs. We know that will become the batcave in the future, but
the question is what exactly is down there now? Could this be a mix
of one of those other new comic story lines from the past quarter
century where Thomas Wayne was some form of the Batman character or
at the very least a vigilante himself?
This question along with others will
plague us all off-season. For instance, is Fish Mooney really dead?
Sure, Jada said about two months ago that she wouldn’t be returning
for a second season but I honestly thought this was her second best
role after Set It Off. She only fell into the water and in the comics
Batman is always tossing or letting someone fall into the water and
they magically re-appear. Plus, water is a fish's natural habitat. I can understand if she doesn’t want to
reprise the role or if they don’t want her back for whatever
reason, but if she did want to come back, I’m sure that could be
worked out. What will happen to the show going forward? Who will be
the main villain? Will we return to a city still in a gang war with
no real leader, or will Penguin have officially claimed his throne?
What is going to happen with crazy Barbara? What’s going to happen
to crazy Nygma? Will Gordon get his own official non-Batman villain
to be his nemesis or will the show continue as it is? Personally, I
think an interesting and creative thing for them to do is to skip
ahead a full year or two and pick-up there; if they didnt’ do this
next season, then maybe the season after that.
What do you think readers and viewers
out there? Were you satisfied with the finale? To you comic book fans
out there, did you enjoy the show more at the end of the season? What
would you like to see for next season?
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Until next time, If you can dodge a
wrench, you can dodge a ball.
P.S. OK, so maybe that was a quote from
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Pack humor. I like the movie. So what? I’ll do better next time.
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